Police View 40,000 Dumb Party Photos to Guess Cause of Fire

Sometimes cell phone cameras and portable digital video cameras can turn innocent bystanders into a police investigator's best friend. But in the case of a dorm room fire at a party at NYU, the partygoers' documentation helped as much as it hindered the investigation. After sifting through 40,000 images and videos of young women making out, posing with goofy sexy faces, and people drawing penis pictures on a passed out student's face, police finally determined that the fire was caused by a dropped, lit cigarette. (Seriously, enough with the goofy sexy faces!)

Wow. Thats full on. I have enough trouble keeping up with all the stories in our real newspaper's. I cant imagine buying one full of made up stuff. Which is a pretty stupid statement coming from someone who spends all her time reading gossip sites and mags... :)

Yes. They actually have a print publication that is sold alongside "real" newspapers. It's a satire site. If you read and watch the stuff it's really funny. I'm not sure how much of it might be lost on a non-American (or non-USAer for you PC people).

haah--I thought this was hilarious! like chouette I read/watched the whole thing "thinking" it was real, and being totally confused because 1. i didn't hear about a dorm fire 2. who the heck takes 40,000 pics like that!?!?! it was hilarious during, and slowly as I realized it was "fake". I don't read carefully and did not notice it was from the Onion until after.
as to the rude comments about Tres--GET A LIFE! She is doing her job, and d/n personally attack you. again, as to the first comment--I think it was supposed to be written "seriously" as to trick people--that made it much more funny to me. if you have a problem with the other three sites being gone thats not tres' fault! i cant stand rude ppl!

haah--I thought this was hilarious! like chouette I read/watched the whole thing "thinking" it was real, and being totally confused because 1. i didn't hear about a dorm fire 2. who the heck takes 40,000 pics like that!?!?! it was hilarious during, and slowly as I realized it was "fake". I don't read carefully and did not notice it was from the Onion until after.as to the rude comments about Tres--GET A LIFE! She is doing her job, and d/n personally attack you. again, as to the first comment--I think it was supposed to be written "seriously" as to trick people--that made it much more funny to me. if you have a problem with the other three sites being gone thats not tres' fault! i cant stand rude ppl!

I liked it better when the three were separate because you found more posts about what category you were interested in, but I think Tres is doing the best she can. She does have three major groups she needs to cover for crying out loud.

I actually appreciated seeing this on here. Sometimes I see Onion articles on Digg or on The Onion itself, but on those places I always know it's satire before I see it. When I first saw this, I didn't notice it was the Onion, and it was even funnier when I realized it was just humor.

Ouch - let's not attack Tres. I am on this site way less than before for the same reasons but honestly the patronizing posts about her age and voice need to stop. Don't read it or message her privately.

I really wish it was back to Dear, Giggle, and Citizen Sugar as well. Or at least Dear/Giggle and a separate Citizen-like site as well. Based on the headline I thought it was real, until I realized that it was the Onion. Don't mix the crap in with the serious news please!